FIVE TOMBAS DANCING WITH SWORDS, GONGS, AND CYMBALS, WHILE A SIXTH BEATS A DRUM,
AROUND
THIS
CURIOUS
ALTAR
By incantations and sword dances they helped the spirit in the other world, who had committed suicide30
years
ago.
The
altar
consisted
ofgreen
turf placed on tables and into it were thrust bamboo or canebrake and sticks of pine woodpainted
with
Nashi
symbols.